[SOLVED] Too long WEP key

Question

Hey guys,
I'm currently trying to install Arch on my laptop: this is my first time with Arch but definitely not my first with Linux.  However, while following the instructions in the Beginner's Guide I ran into some trouble with the wifi-menu section. I tried to connect to my wireless network(wep) but it gave me a screen that said "CONNECTING FAILED" and a choice of whether I wanted to save the generated profile or not. I chose "Yes" and ran wifi-menu again, but this time it just exited with a command-line output of "Job for netctl@wlp3s0\x2dXXX.service failed. See 'systemctl status netctl@wlp3s0\x2dXXX.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details." I ran each of the commands, and the first command didn't give me anything I could make anything out of, but the journalctl command gave me this:
Jul 11 01:43:28 archiso network[1416]: Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
Jul 11 01:43:28 archiso network[1416]: Line 6: Too long WEP key 0 '"wep key"'.
Jul 11 01:43:28 archiso network[1416]: Line 6: failed to parse wep_key0 '"wep key"'.
Jul 11 01:43:28 archiso network[1416]: Line 8: failed to parse network block.
Jul 11 01:43:28 archiso network[1416]: Failed to read or parse configuration '/run/network/wpa_supplicant_wlp3s0.conf'.
Jul 11 01:43:29 archiso network[1416]: The WPA supplicant did not start for interface 'wlp3s0-XXX'
Jul 11 01:43:29 archiso network[1416]: Failed to bring the network up for profile 'wlp3s0-XXX'
Jul 11 01:43:29 archiso systemd[1]: netctl@wlp3s0\x2dXXX.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 11 01:43:29 archiso systemd[1]: Failed to start Networking for netctl profile wlp3s0-XXX.
Please help! I've been tearing my hair out over this for the last few days and would greatly appreciate if someone could give me a hand here.
Last edited by BishopBlade (2013-07-12 14:15:34)

Answer 1

I could have sworn I read WPA over and over again in that first post.  But you know that if you don't use wpa, then you can actually just use iw or the older (and apparently deprecated) iwconfig. 
In any case, if you want this to work with netctl, there is the possibility that you need to use the hexadecimal type Key=.  You can see an example of this in the man pages, or you can simply look at the example /etc/netctl/examples/wireless-wpa file.  Unfortunately, the auto-generation of wifi-menu can only generate the other kind of key format.